Firefox Notice
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Am I the only one who finds the hardest part of customer outreach the actual writing? Either you have no time or writer’s block.
If I’m not, and you want to tell your community about Firefox, feel free to use the text below. Bend, break and mutilate as you see fit. 
The final version of Firefox is here. Firefox is a free web browser which is considered a safer, faster alternative to Internet Explorer. It will automatically import all of your IE bookmarks and preferences the first time you start it. It also has built in blocking of pop-up windows and tons of extensions that you can install with a click.
Examples:
- Adblock filters even more annoying ads.
- Biobar provides access to all major biological data resources. The primary advantage of this tool is that it allows a biologist to browse and retrieve data from Genomic, Proteomic, Functional, Literature, Taxonomic, Structural, Plant and Animal-specific databases. In addition to the browsing features, biobar also provides links to important bioinformatics sites and services including services at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ). The tool also provides links to major data deposition sites for nucleotide, protein and 3D-structure data. Finally, the menu also contains links to many Sequence, Structure alignment and analysis tools.
- Translate translates web pages (via toolbar button) or selected text (via context menu) to and from different languages.
- WeatherFox displays international weather forecasts from weather.com.
- WebmailCompose makes mailto: links load your webmail’s compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu.
Yahoo! Companion provides same functionality as the official toolbar for Internet Explorer, i.e. search, customizable buttons and access to your Yahoo! Bookmarks.
Patriot Act — laura
